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Guest Privileges
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralGeneral Political Science
Publisher Price: $27.95
ISBN13: 9781938603303
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2026 LAMMY AWARD IN LGBTQ+ NONFICTION
Weaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of discovery through the clandestine queer communities of the Gulf States, and into the very nature of home and belonging
When journalist Gaar Adams first arrives in the Gulf States--where four out of five residents are non-citizens, and where the penalties for queer acts incude deportation, imprisonment, torture, and death--he approaches the LGBTQ+ immigrants who choose to live there with one seemingly simple question: Isn't it harder for you to make a life here?
From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia, Adams finds himself drawn to liminal spaces. The Bengali barbershops with men laughing over Bollywood movies. The street acrobats doing parkour along the Corniche promenade, which becomes a cruising ground for solo men after midnight. To his surprise, Adams finds queer communities all across the Gulf States--clandestine, resilient, and forever welcoming.
From the uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties, to a courageous Pakistani farmhand helping his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders, a kaleidoscope of unforgettable characters challenges his assumptions on finding a place in the world--for others, and for himself.
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